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Mega Dittos
So I don't frequent this board much, but I'm wondering, how many people here have had a gun pointed at them by a police officer without provocation*? For me, it's been twice. But then again, I grew up in the South. I also had my locker in high school quasi-randomly** searched for drugs.
These events have lead me to have strong feelings. First is that most cops shouldn't have guns. Second is that the Fourth Amendment, to the extent it exists in the United States, is a good thing.
Guns drawn needlessly are about intimidation. Intimidation is about fear, and every good Star Wars fan knows that fear leads to hatred. People wonder why youth hate cops; all they have to do is look at that tape.
I'm with bilmore. If I ever find out a cop points a gun at the baltspawn without provocation, I'm going off the hook.
*By provocation I mean something on the order of hello's standard, i.e. the officer has some rational reason to believe his or someone else's safety is threatened. I'm assuming there are few people who are going to say that yes a cop pointed a gun at him, but he deserved it.
**A say quasi-randomly because it was supposed to be random, but for some reason only the lockers of the the people I hung out with were searched. One principal just really couldn't stand us (I suppose it had something to do with a friend who called him a cocksucker in the middle of a school assembly), and was very disappointed when the search didn't turn up any of the drugs he just knew were there. The irony is that none of the group of friends touched drugs until college.
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